Monday, August 07, 2017 – Working a Lyon Drug, Main Street, Wm Gheen and Liriope beds

Our week has started off great. We put in a full day of work and temperatures are very pleasant in the low 80’s with a cool breeze. It has been this way since the middle of last week. I don’t know how long it will last but we love it.

We started in the herb gardens of the Lyon Drug and finished weeding and cleaning what we started last week. Most of the historic sites in Old Nauvoo only require us to weed and clean monthly but Lyon drug is so big and visited by so many people that it requires three or four cleanings a month. The same is true of all the larger and high visibility sites like the Visitor’s Center, Women’s Garden and the Family Living Center.

There is a large “Weeping Beech” tree with drooping limbs that go all the way to the ground by the Lyon Drug. I was pulling weeds and killing rogue trees around the perimeter when I noticed a rogue tree further inside of the hanging branches. To get to the rogue tree and cut it down I had to part the limbs and walk further under  the branches and then inside the drooping canopy. I was completely blown away, inside it was cavernous, almost like walking into a large dome tent. The trunk of the tree was the only thing inside the drooping limbs.

 

Once inside the tree I could see other rogue trees to kill so I could keep working. But I had to get the others in our crew to see the inside of this really cool tree. It was really quite amazing. Unfortunately my pictures don’t do it justice.

After we finished weeding and cleaning at the Lyon drug we went to the south end of Old Main Street and weeded the flowerbeds and terracotta planters in front of the historic home of Jonathan Browning and Gun Shop. 

After lunch we finished our day pulling rogue trees and weeding more Liriope beds on the East side of the Visitor’s Center. It is time consuming and very hard to clean and get rid of all the rogue trees in the Liriope beds.  I don’t think we will ever get the job completely done before winter sets in.